Classic in Translation Brief Solution 2013 to 2019

Classic in Translation Brief Solution 2013 to 2019

Previous Board Brief Questions Solution 2013-2019 | Classic in Translation made by Bangla Summary

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Classic in Translation Brief Solution 2013

a) Name the three grest masters of Greek Tragedy. (2015-l, 2017-f)

♥→ Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. 

b) Between which countries was the Trojan War fought?  (2016-f)

♥→ Between Greece and Troy. 

c) Who is Chrysies?

♥→ She is the daughter of Chryses, (the priest in Apollo in troy).

d) Who is Calchas?  (2019)

♥→ The Greek Prophet who played a major part through the Trojan War. 

e) Name The plays of the Argive Trilogy

♥→ (According to set suggestion) Oresteia, Proteus, and Seven against Thebes. OR (According to fbc study guide) Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides.

f) What happened to Iphigenia?

♥→ She was killed by her father, Agamemnon. 

g) Where is Medea’s house? 

♥→ In Corinth. 

h) What is Lethe?  (2016-j)

♥→ A river in Hades. (In Greek Mythology, All those who drank its water experienced complete forgetfulness) 

i) Who is Apollo? (2018-a)

♥→ Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto.

j) Name the two travellers in ‘The Frogs’. (2018- i)

♥→ Dionysus and Xanthias.

 11- k) Who is Dionysus? (2017- g)

♥→ Dionysus is the god of fertility (উর্বরতা) and wine.

l) What Does “Deus Ex Machina” means?  (2018- k)

♥→ A Latin expression meaning a god from machine.

Classic in Translation Brief Solution 2014

a) Who arranged the funeral games in Homer’s Iliad’? 

♥→  Achilles

b) Who was Menelaus? 

♥→ Menelaus, the husband of Helen and a king of Sparta. 

c) What was the name of King Priam’s wife?    

♥→ Hecuba. (Hacabe নয় কিন্তু)

d) Who is Xanthias? (2019, 2017- k)

♥→ the slave of Dionysus.

e) Who was Clytemnestra? 

♥→ She was the queen of Argos and wife of Agamemnon.

f) What was Agamemnon’s dilemma? (2018 -c)

♥→ Agamemnon faced the dilemma of whether or not to kill his own daughter (for the sake of the state)

g) Why did Theseus go to the underworld?    

♥→ to capture persephony from hades to help his friend pirithous. 

h) Who was Pelias?

♥→ the step brother of Aeson.

i) Who was Seneca?

♥→ A Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist.

j) What suspicion did Creon have against Medea? (2016- h, 2018- h)

♥→ She might harm her daughter. 

k) Whom did Pluto marry?

♥→ Pluto married Proserpine (বি. দ্র. Proserpina ও শুদ্ধ বানান)

l) How did Phaedra die?  

♥→ Phaedra committed suicide.

Classic in Translation Brief Solution 2015

25- a) What is an epic? (2018- j)

♥→ An epic is a long narrative poem which narrates the deeds of a historical or legendary hero.

b) What was the most vulnerable (দূর্বল) part of Achilles body?

♥→ His heel. (গোড়ালি)

c) Why did Medea decide to kill her own children? (2018- b) 

♥→  In order to take revenge on Jason.

d) What type of a comedy is ‘The Frogs’?

♥→ The comedy of ideas. 

e) What were Molossians?  

♥→ Molossians were fierce dogs.

f) What are the rules of the contest as announced by Dionysus?

♥→ There will be no second hand imagery, no wastage of time, no pointless decoration and no elegance of expression.

g) When did Phaedra confess her sin?

♥→  After seeing the dead body of Hippolytus.

h) Who guarded the ‘Golden Fleece’?

♥→  A dragon that never slept.

i) Why did Achilles withdraw himself from the battlefields? (2017- j) 

♥→  Because he became angry with Agamemnon who demanded Achilles’ Battle prize ‘Briseis’.

j) Who is the paramour (প্রণয়ী) of Clytemnestra?

♥→  Aegisthus.

k) Who made the shield for Achilles? (2018-f)

♥→  Hephaestus.

l) Who are the three masters of Greek tragedy?

♥→  Repeated (2013, 2017-f)

Classic in Translation Brief Solution 2016

a) Why did Thetis disguise her son Achilles?  

♥→ because she knew that he could die young if he went to war. 

b) Why did Hippolytus become a Misogynist (নারী বিদ্বেষী)?

♥→ because he had devotion to Artemis. (সে আর্টিমেস দেবতার উপাসনা করত)

c) How does Medea become the symbol of all suffering women of all ages?

♥→ Medea in her suffering, transcends (অতিক্রম করে) the personal level and becomes the symbol of the suffering women of all ages. 

d) Why was Phaedra angry with Theseus?    

♥→ As he had broken his promise to give her company regularly. 

e) Who are the eminent (বিখ্যাত) Eleusinian deities (দেবতা)? 

♥→ Persephone, Demeter and Iacehus. 

f) Between which countries was the Trojan War fought?

♥→ ২০১৩ এর b নং উত্তর

g) What is Cassandra’s belief about the fate of all men?

♥→ All men inevitably are made to suffer at the hands of gods.

h) What suspicion did Creon have against Medea? (2018, 2014)

♥→ ২০১৪ এর j নং উত্তর দেখুন।

i) What was Hippolytus’s attitude towards women in the city? (2018-g)

♥→ Women are the prime mover of all wickedness. (সকল পাপাচারের মুল হুতা হলো নারী)

j) What is Lethe?

♥→ ২০১৩ এর h নং উত্তর দেখুন।

k) Why did Clytemnestra kill Agamemnon?    

♥→  to avenge the death of her daughter Iphigenia (whom Agamemnon had sacrificed.)

l) Why did Dionysus decide to go to the Hades? (2018-e)

♥→ to bring a dead playwright back from the underwater to restore quality to Greek drama (and to demonstrate Athens how to become great again.)

Classic in Translation Brief Solution 2017

a) How did Calchas advise Agamemnon?    

♥→ To send back Chryseis without ransom and delay. (কোনোরূপ মুক্তিপণ ও বিলম্ব ছাড়াই ক্রাইসেইস কে ফেরত পাঠানো)

b) What was Hector’s last request to Achilles?

♥→ to hand over his dead body to his kinsmen for proper burial

c) What is the meaning of the word ‘Iliad’?

♥→ ‘The Tale of Troy’ Or ‘the thing about Ilion’.

d) Why did Agamemnon refuse to walk on the red carpet? (2019-d)

♥→ Because it was only privilege (বিশেষ অধিকার) of gods.

e) Who was Iphigenia?

♥→ Iphigenia was the daughter of Agamemnon.

f) Who are the three masters of Greek tragedy? (2013, 2015- l)

♥→  ২০১৩ এর a নং উত্তর দেখুন

g) Who is Dionysus?

♥→  ২০১৩ এর k নং উত্তর দেখুন

h) What is Leviathan?

♥→ A sea monster mentioned in the old testament (বাইবেল).

i) How did Hippolytus feel at the proposal of love from Phaedra?

♥→ Hippolytus was terribly / deeply shocked (ভয়ানকভাবে হতবাক হয়েছিল)

j) Why did Achilles withdraw himself from the battlefield? (2015-i)

♥→  Because he became angry with Agamemnon who demanded Achilles’ Battle prize ‘Briseis’.

k) Who was Xanthias? (2019, 2017-k)

♥→ the slave of Dionysus.

l) Who is the boatman in ‘The Frogs’?  

♥→ Charon.

Classic in Translation Brief Solution 2018

a) Who was Apollo?

♥→ ২০১৩ এর i নং উত্তর দেখুন

b) Why did Medea decide to kill her children?

♥→  ২০১৫ এর c নং উত্তর দেখুন

c) What was Agamemnon’s dilemma?

♥→  ২০১৪ এর f নং উত্তর দেখুন

d) What is the tradition in Hades?

♥→ When a great artist dies, he sits next to Plato at the Prytaneion.

e) Why did Dionysus decide to go to the Hades?

♥→  ২০১৬ এর L নং উত্তর দেখুন

f) Who made the shield of Achilles?

♥→ ২০১৫ এর k নং উত্তর দেখুন

g) What was Hippolytus’s attitude towards women in the city?

♥→  ২০১৬ এর i নং উত্তর দেখুন

h) What suspicion did Creon have against Medea?  (2016)

♥→  ২০১৪ এর h নং উত্তর দেখুন

i) Name the two travellers in “The Frogs’.

♥→  ২০১৩ এর j নং উত্তর দেখুন

j) What is an epic?

♥→  ২০১৫ এর a নং উত্তর দেখুন

k) What does ‘Deus Ex Machina’ mean?    

♥→  ২০১৩ এর L নং উত্তর দেখুন

l) What was Eleusinia?

♥→  the great festival observed by the Athenians (every five years at Eleusis in Attica.)

Classic in Translation Brief Solution 2019

a) What is Invocation?

♥→ Invocation is the action of invoking someone or something.

b) What incident led to the War of Troy?

♥→ The abduction (অপহরণ) of Helen by Paris.

c) Who is Calchas?

♥→ ২০১৩ সালের d নং উত্তর দেখুন

d) Why was Agamemnon reluctant (অনিচ্ছুক) to walk on the red carpet?

♥→ ২০১৭ সালের d নং উত্তর দেখুন

e) Why did Jason betray Medea?

♥→ because he fell in love with Glauce

f) What does beacon fire suggest?

♥→ A fire set as a signal on an hill or any palce that can be seen from distance.

g) What gift did Medea send to Glauce?

♥→ A poisoned dress.

h) What does Aristophanes mean by frogs?

♥→ The singers.

i) Who is Xanthias?

♥→ 2014 সালের d নং উত্তর দেখুন

j) How many books are there in The Iliad?

♥→ 24 books

k) Why did Theseus curse Hippolytus?

♥→ Because Theseus thought that Hippolytus raped his mother.

l) What was the cause of quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles?

♥→  Agamemnon’s order to get Briseis as a concubine.

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